Live Fedora start page proposal
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Aug 28 19:53:10 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 14:34 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "HP" == Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com> writes:
>
> HP> If I use my system all the time with a network connection up that
> HP> doesn't work [1], can't I just go to the browser prefs and set the
> HP> default page to about:blank?
>
> Although I can't help but agree here, it should also be pointed out
> that if we want to be smart about this, we just have the start page
> stored locally with some javascript magic that attempts to update some
> of the content with bits retrieved from the network. That still
> allows us to have the same content we have now (assuming, of course,
> that we still want it) but also to provide network-provided dynamic
> content.
>
I like this. So the page will render but if they aren't connected the
special content won't get downloaded.
That's a good idea.
-sv
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